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ALL DVD's created are either burned with NTSC, which is what we use here in the US (All of the DVD players sold here are equipped to play NTSC-format DVD's) or with PAL, which is what they use in Europe. The DVD players in the US cannot play DVDs from Europe and vise versa because they are not formatted to play each kind of disc.

There probably are some computer programs (which are pretty expensive) that can play a European DVD on a computer. But there is no way to play a European DVD on a normal DVD player in the US.

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Next to the PAL/NTSC reason, DVDs (& BluRay's) have a zone number (retail and rental DVDs! A DVD player can (normally) only play the DVDs with the zone number from the region/country you bought it in.

This regionalization is artificial and is due to a code put on, by the manufacturer. This is to preserve copyright for different countries.

The DVD zone is mentioned on the backside of your cover and on your disc. You can also buy a DVD region 0 player which can play all regions but some DVDs are protected from these players.

A list of the regions can be found on many websites eg. Wikipedia.

Some DVD players can be converted to play all regions. This is a software patch sometimes invoked by special, secret, sequence of button pushes on the remote control. Generally cheaper, unbranded machines can do this. Google 'region hack' for the make of machine you have.

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